You think your Election Day selfie is cute? If only you had one of the colorful "I Voted" stickers from Alaska.

The state upped the ante for Tuesday's midterm elections with a new collection of stickers that put the traditional red, white and blue ones to shame. Designed by Juneau-based artist and filmmaker Pat Race, the stickers feature cartoon animals, such as a walrus riding a snowmobile and a hipster moose wearing a beanie.

It all started with a calendar Race designed. For the month of November, there was an illustration of a bear with an "I voted" sticker.

"A guy from the Division of Elections bought one of those prints from my store and put it up in his office. I think they walked past it enough times that they thought, 'Maybe we should talk to that guy,'" Race said.

At first, they were planning to use the illustrations for election pamphlet covers. They loved the images so much, the department decided to print them on stickers, too.

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"I was a little against doing it at first because the iconic Alaska 'eight stars' voting sticker was something I was always proud to wear around," Race said. "But they talked me into doing it."

Race designed the stickers with Alaskans in mind, depicting animals native to the state and creating illustrations he thought people would identify with.

He drew up eight designs, which were also translated into more than a dozen languages.

The stickers were in part created as a way to entice people to vote early. If Alaskans voted in-person before Nov. 6, they would receive one of the stickers.

"We talked a lot about how hard it is for people to vote sometimes in Alaska. We have a vast geography so sometimes getting to the polls can be tough," said Race.

It seems the plan may have worked. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports early voting numbers were the highest they've been in 12 years, though we're not sure how much of that is attributable to political climate, and how much comes down to sticker designs.